Tyler Foster

In 2011, the Seattle Art Museum held a retrospective called American Heart: The Films of Jeff Bridges. I bought a series pass and went to as many as I could. Most of the lineup was what you'd expect. The ones I'd never seen (Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, Michael Cimino's Thunderbolt and Lightfoot) were fantastic, and the familiar ones (John Carpenter's Starman, Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski) were a joy to see with an audience. However, the one that stood out, the one...

1998. Bill Clinton's affair was uncovered, leading to his impeachment -- bad behavior we now know was only the tip of the iceberg. Andrew Wakefield published a bullshit study that lead to the current, deadly anti-vax movement. Google was founded, arguably launching our current tech oligarchy. Lastly (but perhaps most importantly) New Line Cinema's expensive TV-to-movie adaptation Lost in Space cratered at the box office, grossing only $136.1 million against an $80 million budget. No doubt New...

It's the stuff of contemporary Hollywood legend. After making ends meet as a stand-up comedian and scoring parts here and there (including the last Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool, and Earth Girls Are Easy), Jim Carrey first landed on the public's radar as the token white guy on the Wayans Brothers comedy show "In Living Color." Although the show turned Carrey into a rising star, Hollywood moves slow, but in Carrey's case, the wait would pay off when not one, not two, but three starring...